Astram atricapillus Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1889 Maine Oct. 17 L. Umbagog - Shot a young ♂ in the corn behind Great Island. It rose from the ground and alighted on the horizontal branch of a tall ash over the water. He paddled to within 30 yards & I shot it sitting. Once or twice it bobbed its head up & down slightly like a Pigeon Hawk. Its position was very erect, its shape firm and trim, its bearing alert & vigorous in all those respects differing from the Hourly Buzzard and scarcely less ruffled looking Accipiter fuscus et corpore. The crop contained the skin bones & flesh (but not the skull) of a Striped Squirrel; the stomach remains of mice. " 22 On the Hayward farm a young ♂ Grr. hawk passed me pursuing a Robin. The latter plunged into a dense cover of young willows & Yuccas the Hawk following about 1 ft behind. The next moment I heard the Robin scream as the Hawk seized it. Its cries continued at intervals for fully two minutes growing fainter & fainter. Although I have myself killed so many small birds this occurrence still produced a deep impression on me filling me with pity and indignation. I followed quickly in but only got a glimpse of the Hawk as he started from the ground some thirty yards ahead. He bore off the Robin although I found a map shot at him. At place where he caught his bird I found many of its breast feathers. Where he alighted, several rods further on, he had plucked out many of its green feathers.